“Watch it,” the heckler yelled, but they couldn’t hear him up on the stage, even though he was in the first row. So he pulled a .38 revolver from his waistband, where it had been tucked beneath his t-shirt, and waved it in the air...Ha ha! That's funny! Imagine a federal "Only One" pointing a gun at a singer as a joke to make a song request! And imagine the anti-gun Village Voice* thinking that's a cool story. Ha ha!
Tony smiled and reached into his pants pocket and flipped his wallet open in Bo’s direction. “FBI,” he said, though I couldn’t see what he was showing. He held the gun steady.
It's a good thing there's legislation in most places to keep ordinary people from carrying in establishments that serve alcohol, isn't it? And in the Bronx?
* I used this "Mad on the Street" interview, juxtaposed with H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, as the basis for my Jan. 2000 GUNS AND AMMO essay, "The New Eloi." Unfortunately, it's not online, and because they own the copyright, I can't post it here.
Reads like a scene from "Escape From New York."
ReplyDeleteToday, Mr. FBI would be lucky not to be jumped by five people to his left, right and rear, or reported to real cops who might just have him in the alley all bruised before he could get his ID out..
Sad that Tony the Fed was probably the roughest crowd Bo ever played.
Speaking of Escapism, I remember when Snake Plissken gets captured by the main gang in the New Yok City Penal Facility. Leader Issac Hayes announces: "They sent in their best man. And tomorrow when we cross the 59th Street Bridge to freedom [cheers], their best man is gonna be leading the way... from the neck up ... on the hood of my car!" [really loud cheers]
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